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Monday, 7 July 2014

How To Build A Girl: How To Build A Bridge To My Heart

I didn't know who Caitlin Moran was until the lovely Frances got excited at me this one day because Caitlin's first book was coming out in a couple of weeks. I'm not immune to Frances-recommendations, nor to her shoving books in my face and telling me to read them, and so I read How To Be A Woman, and it was spectacular.

By the time Moranthology came out, I was hanging on Moran's every word on twitter, reading all her columns whenever The Times pesky paywall came down, and even got tickets for two events she was doing to promote her book. At one of these, I MET HER AND IT WAS GREAT and, let's face it, I would probably marry her if I could (a platonic marriage of amazingness, obviously).

Somewhere along the way I've also read The Chronicles of Narmo, the novel Moran wrote when she was 15 and ridiculously precocious, but this basically brings us to this readalong. I am SO EXCITED to be reading Caitlin along with some tremendous ladies, but on the flip side of this, I can't believe I've had the book in my possession for a couple of weeks now and haven't actually read it (let's face it, I've read some of it. It's amazing. But shhhh...)

But anyway! Those dark days of longing are over now, and I can't wait to read the things the glorious Caitlin has to tell, nor can I wait to squeal about it with everyone starting next week. SO EXCITED.

(ps you can definitely follow along with us over at Emily's blog, we'll be posting weekly. And I will be screeching A LOT.
pps If you're an American, you can definitely preorder this book here. And if you're an Englisher, you can probably find it in most bookshops because I'm pretty sure it's out now.)

I just bought the book at Tesco, having found out about the readalong THIS MORNING about ten minutes before we set off. Don't know if I'm actually posting and shizzle because... well, frankly I'm shit at posting right now... but I'm going to read it anyway! I read the excerpt and the big interview in The Times Magazine last week, it was really good. :)

I didn't know this was happening! Totally would have joined in - I have all those Waterstone's giftcards I could have used to buy the book and everything! Never mind, I will read all of your readalong posts and... well, let's face it, probably buy it anyway :-p

My bloglovin feed was full of posts about this readalong, and then the next day it happened to fall off the shelves at home and came home with me. I'll definitely be joining in... though I need to get round to writing an introductory post.